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The direct and joint contribution to National Income made The Ramón by El Corte Areces Inglés Foundation and its Consolidated is dedicated to Group promoting of Companies and furthering stood
at The €3,785.3 Annual million Corporate in 2014. Social This Responsibility amount is detailed Report in provides research, the graphic a summary education below: of and all the culture principles Spain. that govern our company, with the aim
of achieving the greatest possible transparency in our Founded management by Ramón and to Areces ensure en greater 1976, it stability provides and patronage security to for the our sciences customers
and employees.
through support for research, contributing to the generation of human
capital and the spread of knowledge in three specific fields: Life and
Contribution to National Income / millions Materials Sciences, of euros
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Social Sciences and the Humanities.
One of its main lines of action is the support given to scientific research,
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mainly through announcing national Company tenders. In 2014, a total of 128 projects
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were underway involving 643 Spanish 313,40 researchers.
Human resources training is one of the priorities for the institution, offering
new opportunities to young degree graduates and doctors. This line of action
is materialised under an internal overseas grants programme and support for
grants programmes run by other institutions. In 2014, the foundation had 64 post-graduate and State, post-doctorate autonomous grant recipients at
the most outstanding research and university centres around the world, mainly in Europe and the United States.
As regards the communication of knowledge, the Ramón Areces Foundation organised 82 of its own activities in 2014
(conferences, seminars, master classes, congresses, etc.), at which a number of cross-cutting issues were 1.242,07 discussed, such as aging,
financial education, the energy transition in Europe and climate change; the application of Big Data to business management;
innovation policies; preventive vaccines against tuberculosis; and rare or uncommon diseases, etc. 475 experts spoke at these
events (245 from Spain and 230 from abroad), which were attended by 13,530 people.
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